NB: Today's post is a book review. The song above is included merely because it's an awesome song.Fish In Exile, by Vi Khi Nao, is a novel that's such a great blend of experimental and traditional. I mean, the shape of the story itself is sort of classic--fighting through grief and mourning to re-embrace the world--but the way it's told is all Nao's style, which means having a dozen or so sentences every page that deserve to be underlined and highlighted. Fish in Exile reminds me, at least in terms of execution, of Ben Marcus's more recent stories (and of Flame Alphabet), because he has lately seemed to embrace the momentum of story, but while still preserving his own style, his sentence-level experimentation, etc. The book is so moving. The ending blew me away. I said out loud, "whew, jeeze, so good," when I put the book down after finishing it. Catholic and Ethos are such great characters, I liked spending time with them. And Callisto and Lidia too. The ending is like the ending of Ulysses for speed and power and beauty. Pick it up, it's so worthwhile.[BUY Fish In Exile]